Re: [mythtv-users] A foolish question abut Knoppmyth auto-install

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Close
On 1/19/06, Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It shouldn't be doing that. You should post this question in the knoppmyth forum board at www.mysettopbox.tv . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Marcom Sent: Thursday, January

Re: [mythtv-users] Centralized NFS (NAS?) video partition

2006-01-19 Thread Andrew Close
On 1/10/06, Jonathan Tidmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/9/06, Jonathan Tidmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some NAS appliances out there like the Buffalo TeraStation or the Infrant Don't let the glass fall on your keyboard, luckily it was empty. I've been eyeing the Infrant

Re: [mythtv-users] (please respond) How do you use the keyboard instead of mouse in X?

2005-12-28 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/28/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm shocked that I have not heard any answers to this this question. So I'm warming the thread. I'm also going to ask what I believe is a simpler question. I did verify that my keyboard is not broken by doing Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a

Re: [mythtv-users] new myth hardware

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/20/05, Bruce Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The PVR500 has 2 tuners running off one cable/antenna input. It has S-video and composite inputs. ... Can I use a PVR500 if I have two different inputs? (one from analog cable and one from my cable box) i.e. Can I run the analog cable

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building my first MythTV box. It'll be a back end box that I'll admin remotely (web, rsh, ftp, etc). It's sole purpose right now will be to schedule recordings and transcode them to smaller video files for pulling later to my PC at a

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Andrew Close [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building my first MythTV box. It'll be a back end box that I'll admin remotely (web, rsh, ftp, etc). It's sole purpose right now

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/16/05, Michael Bochynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:30 -0500, George Nassas wrote: On 16-Dec-05, at 11:08 AM, Kirk Grell wrote: I could bump down to PVR-150. Main thing is that I really want as high quality of video as I can get before transcoding. In terms

Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 December 2005 03:23, GREG AMY LINDLEY wrote: Going through my email and noticed your note. I have setup mythtv using a touchscreen (a modified PSOne LCD with a touchscreen on the front). Pretty easy to do and it all

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-12 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/11/05, Tom Lichti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Anderson wrote: snip/ XBMC is amazing, I can do everything except watch live tv, which isn't a big deal, so now I have a useable XBox, the only thing it doesn't have is timestretch and commercial skip, but as this is a secondary box, I

Re: [mythtv-users] Pluto!

2005-12-12 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/10/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back story: I am building a house in KY (insert Red Neck Joke Here!) and am designing the house around homeentertainment. no red neck jokes. :) i'm jealous and envious. i wanna build a home like that! quad CAT6 drops in every room Dual AV

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth on XBOX 360!

2005-12-05 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/5/05, Tom Lichti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Johnston wrote: On 12/5/05, Tom Lichti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael J. Lynch wrote: What are the chances anyone has this working yet? About 0%, considering that no-one has managed to hack into the 360 yet (much less

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth on XBOX 360!

2005-12-05 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/5/05, Robert Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/05, Andrew Close [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'd be willing to look into it if you guys could get me an xbox 360. ;) In thoery, you don't even need an Xbox 360, all you need is the UPNP specs, as we'll be building both a UPNP server

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR500: Is it stable and 3.3V

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/2/05, Brian Foddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some pci shortage issues so I'm considering upgrading my pvr250's to a pvr500. First do people consider the driver stable (compared to the pvr250) for daily usage? Can the driver be mixed with a pvr250 in the same machine? i don't

Re: [mythtv-users] mysettopbox.tv out of commission?

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/30/05, Roger Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to get to the KnoppMyth site at www.mysettopbox.tv today - both the website and the forum. Is it just me, or does everyone see it down? looks like it's down for me too (just to confirm). Cecil usually gives a shout when

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox with root via NFS?

2005-11-29 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/29/05, Ben Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip / I already have the 128MB RAM thanks to xboxrepairguide.com and I was curious how well you box was working with just the 64MB, or are you merely talking about your future plans. Ben, did you purchase a new xbox mobo through them? or do

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging - whats it all about

2005-11-29 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/29/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have found a few references to commercial flagging and its got me interested. I cant however find mutch info on it. I guess my first question is how well douse it work and also how doues it work but a general page on it world be good. i find

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging - whats it all about

2005-11-29 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/29/05, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on show that does not work at all for me is 'Lost', but the skip forward works great for that. most shows work very well. Lost works good for me now (minus the previews for next week, but that's really a commercial anyway)... there have been some

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo

2005-11-23 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:09:15PM +0100, Fredrik Karlsson wrote: Wouldn't the safe bet be the last stable release? Unfortunately the last stable release is so old it no longer works with current stable Linux versions. The

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] ProjectX user guide

2005-11-22 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/22/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 November 2005 09:35, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:36:48PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: Once you have these set the next area of concern is the video display area. Underneath are some arrows (I don't have the

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] ProjectX user guide

2005-11-22 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/22/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip you could dump the new output in the /myth/video directory and then in mythfrontend utilities go into your video manager and it should be rescanned. Would this require using MythVideo and not the recordings area for playback? I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] TiVo to support export to iPod video and PSP

2005-11-21 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/21/05, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/11/21/tivointerview/index.php I know some people are working on scripts that will automatically transcode and setup and RSS podcast for iTunes to load episodes of shows on an iPod. It's a neat hack, but I'd be

Re: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases and cheap DVD burners

2005-11-15 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/15/05, tgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turns out that all the major noise is coming from my graphics card, an nvidia gforce 6600 which has a fan. Could someone suggest an alternative that is good but without a fan. Or is there some clever mod that can be done which makes it okay to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: ATI GPU Transcoding...

2005-11-03 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/3/05, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It just goes to show that the gaming industry is far larger and more controlling than those wanting to use their PCs for reliable DVD/video playback... I thought the two would go hand in hand, but apparently that's not the case. i thought

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Xbox

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/2/05, Ben Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I'm using my xBox as a fully functional mythfrontend, except for the remote control which I can't seem to get working at the moment. It was fairly easy using Gentoo, although I had a near vertical learning curve to implement a diskless

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Xbox

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/2/05, Ben Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Andrew Close [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/2/05, Ben Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I'm using my xBox as a fully functional mythfrontend, except for the remote control which I can't seem to get working at the moment

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv to tivo ty

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew Close
On 11/2/05, Byron Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/05, Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After this friday I'm going to have 3 hacked Directv tivo's with out service. I'm curious if anyone has ever been successful converting mythtv recordings to TY files that can be inserted onto the

[mythtv-users] ATI GPU Transcoding...

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew Close
now we just need to get decent driver support for ATI video cards: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1880749,00.asp or hope that nVidia comes along with a similar feature and then opens it up for us (uhm, i mean our wonderful Myth Developers ;) to make use of!

Re: [mythtv-users] Window Managers - Success with ratpoison instead of kd

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/31/05, James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 October 2005 11:04 am, Greg Estabrooks wrote: I was thinking of getting mythvideo installed though, so I guess I should be aware of focus issues and the need for WM :) thanks! Or use the internal myth player with

Re: [mythtv-users] Window Managers - Success with ratpoison instead of kd

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/31/05, James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 October 2005 11:20 am, Andrew Close wrote: On 10/31/05, James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 October 2005 11:04 am, Greg Estabrooks wrote: I was thinking of getting mythvideo installed though, so I guess I

Re: [mythtv-users] partitioning for second hard drive???

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/31/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, Nada De nada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am trying to increas my video storage capcity. I attached a new hard drive.. and I would like to know if there is an easy way to set up Fedora and partition the new hard

Re: [mythtv-users] phpMyAdmin Configuration

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/31/05, Drew Zerdecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I messed up my GUI settings in mythfrontend and have read that using phpMyAdmin is the easiest way to alter the configuration files within mysql. However, I am having some difficulty getting up and running with phpMyAdmin. I have

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-28 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/28/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I had a similar concept, though slightly different, i think... My idea was to have a general mythtv recordings directory, under which all harddrives would be mounted (ie /mythrec/1 /mythrec/2 /mythrec/3 etc). Have one for new recordings.

Re: [mythtv-users] How to increae video storage.. LVM?? or LVM2

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/27/05, Nada De nada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I installed Mythtv on Fedora 4 using the information from HOW TO...I now want to increase the video storage and I am planning on adding an other hard drive.. I do not have much experience using linux and have been reading about LVM or

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/27/05, Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Hopefully in the next few months myth will support storing to multiple directories, which would remove the need for LVM or having to worry about losing anything but what was on that drive. excellent thread! :) i had to come back to

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/27/05, Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:42:15PM -0500, Andrew Close wrote: On 10/27/05, Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Hopefully in the next few months myth will support storing to multiple directories, which would remove the need

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/26/05, Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/05, Steve Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that were deleted? If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for the size data

Re: [mythtv-users] MythKaraoke?

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/22/05, Alex Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't ask me how this came to mind but has anyone thought about the possibility of creating a plugin for Karaoke inside of Myth? hmm, i'm thinking that may be an itch best left unscratched... ;) ___

Re: [mythtv-users] New MythTV setup

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/25/05, David Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I am getting ready to build a mythTV machine from a lot of extra parts I have around and would like some input on hardware and interfacing into my current AV system. welcome to the joy/obsession that is MythTv! ;) sounds like

Re: [mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew Close
Hi Josh, On 10/25/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 satellite receivers and DVD players and computers and stuff in my house. I want desperately to consolidate my house. I questions is three fold. One is the MythTV

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Silverstone LC16m

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/25/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:53, Dan Brow wrote: I was concerned about that too and as a result have been looking more at the LC-10m. If you find out the buttons work please let me know that would make an amazing case Will do, I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) Kaffeine (NOW) is KnoppMyth

2005-10-21 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/21/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Plus, it becomes a hobby. You can buy a piece here and there and put the system together. You don't have to always have it running to do business. a hobby? more like an obsession! :) unfortunetely i don't have the money to fund my obsession

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/20/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Close wrote: snip/ i second that. if you're going to start over you may want to give another distro a try. KnoppMyth is a pretty quick and very painless install. it has full support for all Myth's many wonderful features OOtB (out

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox as FE

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/20/05, Vladan Bato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I guess I'll have to spend the €30 for a genuine Microsoft DVD kit. or check on ebay! sometimes those remotes come with a cheap xBox. ;) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Video iPod

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/19/05, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I also agree the ffmpeg should do the trick. So, we need a method that the user can select which recordings should be podcast-enabled. Seeing as transcoding is required, and could be beneficial for other uses besides podcasts, I think that it

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox as FE

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/19/05, Robert Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/19/05, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably off topic but has anyone seen anything in their searches about the possibility of creating a cd image that the XBox will boot from without modifying hardware?

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/19/05, Alex Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:34 pm, ffrr wrote: snip/ My current plan of attack is to wait for the Mandriva 2006 upgrade to become public and try that, before going down the route of shelling out money on a new card. How about trying one

Re: [mythtv-users] Who wants to help me develop a new theme?

2005-10-13 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/13/05, Tim Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's some screen shots of a theme i am working on. (I know! now that I post some screenshots the theme will never be completed.) http://www.bullshooter.com/~tward/vod3.png http://www.bullshooter.com/~tward/vod4.png Myth iPod!!! :) i like it.

Re: [mythtv-users] Who wants to help me develop a new theme?

2005-10-13 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/13/05, Alex Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:14 am, Andrew Close wrote: On 10/13/05, Tim Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's some screen shots of a theme i am working on. (I know! now that I post some screenshots the theme will never be completed

Re: [mythtv-users] Who wants to help me develop a new theme? It's time.

2005-10-12 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/12/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gods of User Experience have spoken ( http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html ) let's offer them the highest form of flattery. hmm, it kinda looks like Apple ripped off CenterStage: http://centerstageproject.com/index.php i believe

Re: [mythtv-users] Who wants to help me develop a new theme? It's time.

2005-10-12 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/12/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Close wrote: On 10/12/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gods of User Experience have spoken ( http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html ) let's offer them the highest form of flattery. hmm, it kinda looks

Re: [mythtv-users] Source for drives

2005-10-04 Thread Andrew Close
On 9/27/05, Mike Daugird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are there any good sources for hard drives? I am recording at 2 gib/hr mpeg2 from my pvr 350 and I have been very happy with the way it has been working so far. My problem now is that I have run out of room on a 250 gig drive that formatted

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)

2005-09-30 Thread Andrew Close
On 9/30/05, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are you making this happen? Via MythNotify and a modem in your Myth backend? Via Asterisk? (of so, can you be more specific?) there was a pretty big discussion about getting caller id info in OSD a while ago:

Re: [mythtv-users] Source for drives

2005-09-27 Thread Andrew Close
On 9/27/05, Mike Daugird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are there any good sources for hard drives? I am recording at 2 gib/hr mpeg2 from my pvr 350 and I have been very happy with the way it has been working so far. My problem now is that I have run out of room on a 250 gig drive that formatted

[mythtv-users] Isaac, are you looking for a job? :)

2005-09-22 Thread Andrew Close
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=26151query=googletvtopic=0type=googletv GoogleTV is hiring! Responsibilities: In this role, you will provide leadership on product vision and execution of projects that enable using Google's search and advertising technologies to enhance

Re: [mythtv-users] Simplifying the instalation? (everyone wants that!) - ideas for thought

2005-09-16 Thread Andrew Close
On 9/15/05, Buzz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about having recommended or common configurations? 1) single PC - everything installed,run and stored locally. 2) single backend system - backend+tuners+lirc+database+web+filesystem all on one host. basic frontend on other host/s (as many

[mythtv-users] [OT] security/serveillance cameras Myth...

2005-09-07 Thread Andrew Close
hey all, we have a wonderful software suite in MythTv. it lets you watch/record tv, watch videos, listen to music, even talk on the phone! how about a security plug-in? MythSurveillance? i know there are a couple ppl on the list that already have cameras hooked to their MythBoxen and can view

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth versus FC?

2005-09-01 Thread Andrew Close
On 9/1/05, Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice a lot of people here are using Fedora Core. I have KnoppMyth CD ready to go. I picked that just because I've used Knoppix in the past and found it pretty easy. Is it just a taste/experience thing or am I going to be missing out on

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 purchasing questions.

2005-08-23 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/22/05, tufkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am fed up with framegrabbers and I am looking at getting the newer cheaper PVR-150 card (maybe 2 of them). I see 2 models on my usual purchasing site Newegg, the 1042 and the 1045. instead of getting two of them you can get the pvr-500 which is

Re: [mythtv-users] Completely removing commercials

2005-08-16 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/15/05, Steve Elzinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I used the program found here: http://www.pvrguide.no-ip.com/bbs-old/viewtopic.php?t=26826 This will cut the commercials and reinsert the program back into the database without having to transcode or change container format. Steve,

Re: [mythtv-users] what's the latest on pvr-500 firmware with ivtv 0.3.7b

2005-08-16 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/16/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Close wrote: On 8/12/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Pardon the newbie question here, but I just got humbled by my KnoppMyth install. Before I go messing with something as important as IVTV, I want to know

Re: [mythtv-users] what's the latest on pvr-500 firmware with ivtv 0.3.7b

2005-08-15 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/12/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I just got my hardware yesterday, and decided to try knoppmyth for my first try at a MythTV system. It seems that knoppmyth uses ivtv-0.2.0-rc3i http://mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt Am I going to wish I hadn't even tried

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-15 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/9/05, Robert Kulagowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my August 1 bill, Comcast Chicago says that starting Aug 9, SCI-FI will only be available on their digital packages. So, heads up if you've got analog cable and watch SCI-FI channel. those [EMAIL PROTECTED]@RD$!!! they DID move my

Re: [mythtv-users] Absolutely freakin' amazing

2005-08-12 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/11/05, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had my dual-athlon desktop, with a bttv card, as my master backend, and a p3-500 with 256M-RAM as a slave, also with a bttv. While it worked for conflict resolution, I had to go to REALLY low quality recording on the p3 slave so it

Re: [mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?

2005-08-12 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/12/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: snip / 2. DVDs on Myth. I have ripped quite a few (about 40%) of our collection to Myth, but I've run out of space and need to figure out what my next step is. My wife thought buying a DVD player for every room where

Re: [mythtv-users] Operating System of choice ?

2005-08-10 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are interested in saving time and work, then knoppmyth ( http://mysettopbox.tv/ ) is the right choice. That's the only way you are going to get a good out of the box experience in myth right now. i'll second the KnoppMyth route.

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythCar

2005-08-10 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/10/05, Jason Donahue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thought I'd share my CarPC project with everyone. Lemme know what you guys think. https://www.timekiller.org/carpc/ sweet! but we're gonna need a new list now. :) i've been contemplating this for quite some time. i've looked at

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/9/05, Robert Kulagowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my August 1 bill, Comcast Chicago says that starting Aug 9, SCI-FI will only be available on their digital packages. So, heads up if you've got analog cable and watch SCI-FI channel. hmm, i'll have to look at my bill. i'm not gonna be

Re: [mythtv-users] /video XFS need new HD

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew Close
On 8/7/05, Pshem Kowalczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/08/05, jacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come to a point where I am running out of space on my /dev/hda due to the amount of video I have recorded (only 80 gigs). I would like to add a new 160g HD to my system but lack the know

[mythtv-users] [OT] UPS's and 24x7 MythBoxen...

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Close
Hey all, This is kinda off-topic, but pertains to my MythBox, and i figured others may have run into this as well... i currently have one MythBox up and running in our home production environment. :) now that the new season of SG-1, Atlantis Battlestar Galactica has started i freak out

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] UPS's and 24x7 MythBoxen...

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:18:58AM -0500, Andrew Close wrote: so, i was wondering what types of UPS systems are other MythUsers using? and what would you recommend? I am using an APC Back-UPS ES 725. It talks to the Linux box via USB

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] UPS's and 24x7 MythBoxen...

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/27/05, Michael Carland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 27, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Andrew Close wrote: i currently have one MythBox up and running in our home production environment. :) now that the new season of SG-1, Atlantis Battlestar Galactica has started i freak out whenever

Re: [mythtv-users] HDD Temp

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/27/05, Robert Kulagowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've got the space, these are pretty sweet. http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=370698 this is pretty sweet. i was looking at it for the backend that i'm eventually going to build. :) and due to the design, i

Re: [mythtv-users] HDD Temp

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/27/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a big fan of heat sinks vs. fans. I use fans and cut holes to make air flow in the case. To cool components I like to get stock aluminum and scroll saw it in to dozens of pieces, bonding then together with thermal adhesive. Fill up

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 500MCE worth the trouble yet?

2005-07-22 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/22/05, Jurgen Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The PVR 500MCE's price is getting nicer and nicer and I am thinking about getting one. I currently use 2 PVR 250s without problems. Is it worth the hassle buying a 500MCE and tossing out one of the 250s? Can the 500 be mixed with a

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 500MCE worth the trouble yet?

2005-07-22 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/22/05, Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using a setup with a PVR-500 and a PVR-250, and it is working absolutely fine, with no problems at all. I am using ATrpms, stable, and followed the guide by Jarod Wilson. All three tuners are recording just fine. Here's the relevant

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-20 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/20/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Just an update on this for future reference. It appears that the transcoding from MPEG2 to MPEG2 is now wokring. I'm no longer getting jobs showing up as failed in the system status screen, and the files are being transcoded to a smaller

Re: [mythtv-users] (NEWBIE) Linux Hardware MythTV

2005-07-19 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to add mythTv to my linux home server (debian). However I am stunned about which hardware to buy. Can anyone suggest me some hardware ? - When i buy the hauppauge 350, do I need an additional video card ? - which one do you

Re: [mythtv-users] Default theme is slowest? Theme recommendations?

2005-07-19 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/19/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what are the best themes (complete and fast, or at least, not as slow as the default)? Don't know about speed wise but MythCenter is my favourite. A lot of people have also started using Myxer recently which is configurable. you'll

Re: [mythtv-users] deleting channels...

2005-07-19 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/19/05, Rob O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My one problem area is that I have extra tv channels I need to delete. I see button to do this, delete, ctrl-x do not work. I looked all over for info on this and I can't find it anywhere. So - does anyone know - is there a quick and easy

Re: [mythtv-users] How to choose tuner for recording?

2005-07-10 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/9/05, Christopher Isip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two backends each with 250 gig of free space. THe first backend has tuner 1 and 2. The second backend has tuner 4. (I lost tuner 3). I notice that when I schedule recordings, the tuner that is almost always selected is tuner 1.

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr150 or pvr500

2005-07-09 Thread Andrew Close
On 4/5/05, A. Heinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I am running very reliably with a PVR-150. I put some notes for the PVR-150 on the KnoppMythWiki for Knoppmyth R5. They may be a good starting point for getting a PVR-500 going. I used Jarod's and others instructions from

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Suggestion - tv info for mythvideo

2005-07-05 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/4/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 22:30 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: I like the imdb feature in mythvideo - it does a search on imdb for the movie and then fills in details of the plot, actors etc. I download a few tv programs and it would be great to have a

Re: [mythtv-users] Intel vs AMD for Myth - dual core....

2005-06-28 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/28/05, Isaac Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2005 11:58 pm, Dave wrote: Judging from the benchmarks, it appears that AMD has a performance advantage over Intel once dual-core becomes mainstream (assuming that the encoding performance in these benchmarks will be

[mythtv-users] O'Reilly: Building my MythTv Box...

2005-06-28 Thread Andrew Close
i thought i'd share: http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/06/22/myth_tv.html (although i haven't read it yet...) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Defrag XFS?

2005-06-24 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/24/05, j2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not strictly a MythTV question, but is there a util (apart from backup/restore) to defrag XFS? My recording partition is getting very sluggish after being in use for a while? you don't need to defrag *nix file systems. they (especially the newer ones)

Re: [mythtv-users] Im trying to setup a knopmyth ,

2005-06-22 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/22/05, Darrell Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to setup a knopmyth , I Can i setup the tv card but cant view any chanels, the screen goes black and you hear funny noise/ Clicking noises fron the hdd. is this right? This is ok. just means some configuration is needed. i

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on xbox

2005-06-22 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/22/05, Todd Pearsall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can a modded Xbox with component-out serve up HD? I wasn't sure if it would have enough horsepower. i believe several good answers to this can be found in the archives: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ but off the top of my head

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: the ihome

2005-06-21 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/21/05, John Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kuhn wrote: http://dms.tecknohost.com/macrumors/i/ihome/ not sure what's going on with it or specs.. but it doesnt appear to have any video inputs or outputs on it.. sorry.. i didnt realize this is a very old hoax.. it was just sent

Re: [mythtv-users] Not sure what else to try

2005-06-17 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/16/05, harywilke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well i'm a new user to both myth and linux. but i've managed to get it to work, mostly. I haven't taken the real plunge and hooked it up to our main TV. My main problem is that tv shows here in greece tend to start whenever they feel like it no

Re: [mythtv-users] cd rip problems

2005-06-15 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/15/05, James Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to be able to rip audio CD's from mythfrontend. Now it detects the cd being inserted and takes me to the Optical disk menu and I select Import CD. From there is shows me the correct CD cddb information and the tracks, but when I click

Re: [mythtv-users] Consecutive shows on same channel

2005-06-13 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/13/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's an improvement but there is still the problem of having one of the shows partly in another file (they never end/begin exactly on time). It would be necessary to always watch both shows before deleting either one. I guess there is

Re: [mythtv-users] HD content playback on Mac Mini OS X

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/6/05, Fox Hole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I bought the Mini as a frontend playback device. Should I hold onto the Mini in the hopes that it will be able to playback 1080i content smoothly, or is the Mini unpowered? Will MythTV ever be able to take advantage of the MPEG-2 hardware

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/7/05, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you typically just watch something and delete it right away, then it's probably not worth using mythtranscode; Is it possible to have myth transcode MPEG-2 content to MPEG-4 when it is a week

Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id (file link)

2005-06-04 Thread Andrew Close
On 1/30/05, James Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just cleaned it up some. Thinking about making it a C program instead of Perl script. Here are the Perl Modules needed: IO::Socket Net::Pcap NetPacket::Ethernet NetPacket::IP NetPacket::TCP NetPacket::UDP Unicode::String

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 160GB Western Digital, $30 after rebates

2005-06-03 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/3/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip All of my storage on both back end systems is now on external 1394 hard drives. Gets rid of this problem and allows me to hide the drive for more quiet operation... Mark, what enclosures do you use for this? do you know how many drives

Re: [mythtv-users] total linux newb trying to do manual knoppmyth install

2005-06-02 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/2/05, Alex Van Deusen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried posting this in the Knopmyth forums but no one responded. So I figure I would ask the myth experts. I would follow the guide Jarod puts out but it seems like a lot of work. nothing in the Linux world is ever easy. ;) but it's worth

Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.

2005-05-26 Thread Andrew Close
On 5/25/05, Karsten Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a very very important thing missing in MythTV. At least I have been missing this feature on every single TV I have had: A volumen-preset-while-the-bloody-commercials-are-running button. Ever noticed that the sound is turned up

Re: [mythtv-users] Bottom-end MythTv Suggestions

2005-05-25 Thread Andrew Close
On 5/24/05, Adam Pash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to both mythtv and linux, but I'm hoping to tackle both. I'm hoping to setup a system that I can use as an all-in-one (front-end + backend) system. welcome to Linux and Myth. I've got an old pc (amd-k6 w/multimedia

Re: [mythtv-users] Bottom-end MythTv Suggestions

2005-05-25 Thread Andrew Close
On 5/25/05, Adam Pash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any combination of motherboard (with onboard sound, and ethernet), video card, and processor that anyone could recommend that would cost somewhere in the $100-$200 range that are well-supported? i'm currently using the Chaintech 7NIF2

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500 for $127 shipped on Amazon

2005-05-25 Thread Andrew Close
On 5/25/05, Xiaotian Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/05, james houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check it out here: http://tinyurl.com/92kh8 Looking thru the archives it seems some people have gotten this card to work perfectly and others have only gotten static from it.

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